As I've been doing every year, here is an unscientific and completely biased tally of cinematic observations from 2013.
- Worst film of the year: The Bling Ring
- If you didn't like this film, you can't be my friend: Short Term 12
- Best Opening Credits: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
- Best Last Shot: Prisoners
- Best film poster: Her
- Most underrated performance, female: Anna Kendrick in Drinking Buddies, Kate Hudson in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Scarlet Johansson in Don Jon
- Most underrated performance, male : Daniel Bruhl in Rush, Bobby Cannavale in Blue Jasmine
- Best future adult actor, female: Onata Aprile, What Maisie Knew
- Best future adult actor, male: Tye Sheridan, Mud
- Best death scene in a film: The Counselor
- Best action scene: Orcs vs. dwarves as they come barreling down the river in The Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug
- Most ambitious film: Her
- Most queasy sexual tension in a film: Mia Wasikowska in Stoker
- Most WTF sexual moment in a film: Cameron Diaz on Ferrari windshield in The Counselor
- Come on Hollywood, find something better for this actor: Emily Watson (The Book Thief)
- Best vocals in a film: Broken Circle Breakdown
- Most unnecessary remake: Carrie
- Film I hated that everyone else liked: Dallas Buyer's Club
- Film I liked that everyone else disliked: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
- Best line reading in a film: Julie Louis-Dreyfus in Enough Said
- Most wasted actor in a film: Julie Christie and Anna Kendrick in The Company You Keep
- Keep your paws off my film, Harvey Weinstein!: the inept hacking for the American version of The Grandmaster
- Most in need of editing: Wolf of Wall Street (snip-snip Mr Scorsese and Ms Schoonmaker)